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missing charsets in String to Fontset conversion

Problem: startx is slow, when I switch to console i see warning: missing charsets in String to Fontset conversion. LC_ALL=C startx is fast.

Solution: install fonts for encodings listed in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE, twm output shows which encodings it is missing still: font-misc-misc for iso, jisx-0x201, font-daewoo-misc for ksc5601.1987-0, font-isas-misc for gb2312.1980.0, font-jis-misc for jisx0208.1983-0
or just comment some sections in this file

Warning: paludis –uninstall doesn’t remove it from /usr/lib64/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir and then you have to remove it manually (fc-cache -vf doesn’t work for me)